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School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been ...
Two years before, three current school board members ran on a campaign to restore the school’s Confederate leader names, an attempt that ended at the June 9, 2022 school board meeting with a 3-3 ...
The school board in Shenandoah County passed the controversial measure by a 5-1 margin on May 10, effectively reversing a 2020 decision that changed the names of schools that had been linked to ...
Shenandoah County Public Schools is the operating public school system within Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is governed by a Board of Education. [1] The district operates 10 school sites, including 3 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 3 high schools, and a career and technical education center. [2] Dr. Melody Sheppard serves as the ...
In 2024, the Shenandoah County school board voted to restore Confederate names to Quicksburg district's Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High schools after having removed them in 2020. This appears to be the first district in the country to restore Confederate names once removed from schools. [3]
On July 9, 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to rename the school to Mountain View High School, one of many US schools to remove Confederate names in the wake of the George Floyd protests. [3] In May 2024, the Shenandoah County School Board voted 5–1 to restore the Stonewall Jackson name.
The NAACP in Virginia and five students filed a federal lawsuit against the Shenandoah County school board in response to their vote last month to restore the names of two schools that previously ...
Board of Education ruling. Thursday's school board debate played out in the seat of Shenandoah County, an overwhelmingly white, heavily Republican jurisdiction in the Shenandoah Valley about 150 ...